Acquisition of a High-Performance Computer for Mathematical Sciences Applications

犹他州立大学数学与统计系将购买一台8处理器硅图形工作站，该工作站将专门用于支持数学科学研究。该设备将用于许多研究项目，包括：*增强预测高维多元时间序列的方法。*断裂材料和断裂带中地下水流动的计算模型。昆虫侵染的时空种群动态计算模型及其在森林管理中的应用。*用于理解和控制动力系统的新统计方法，应用于燃烧和流体流动。*大规模非线性系统的数值方法，以及在流体动力学和反应流动中的应用。

The Department of Mathematics and Statistics at Utah State University will purchase an eight processor Silicon Graphics worhstation which will be dedicated to the support of research in the mathematical sciences. The equipment will be used for many research projects, including: * Enhanced methods for predicting high-dimensional multivariate time series. * Computational modeling of groundwater flow in fractured material and fault zones. * Computational modeling of temporal-spatial population dynamics of insect infestation, with applications to forest management. * New statistical methods for the understanding and control of dynamical systems, with applications to combustion and fluid flow. * Numerical methods for large-scale nonlinear systems, with applications to fluid dynamics and reactive flows.